Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-01
A BRILLIANT PAPER.
A Large and Select Audience Hear tn.
 Paper by ssEdmund Kirke.n


 Paper by ssEdmund Kirke." l large and select audience greeted Nil | Gilmore (Edmund Kirke) at the rooms o l the New Haven Colony Historical society las evening and listened with marked interest t. | his raper entitled "A Forgotten Hero, Joh1 Sevier first governor of Tennessee" II opening, Mir Gilmore introduced his hero a one of the ablest men who helped to giv' civil and religious liberty to America. Ht was man of marked ability as statesman but is almost forgotten, though he was fol twelve years governor of Tennessee. Born in Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, of limited ed ucation, as to books, he learned men by in- tuition. His early life after leaving school at sixteen years of age was spent in trade in the village of Newmarket, which he laid out in that valley, one hundred and fifty miles north of Richmond. His first exploit at eighteen years of age in fighting Indians who attempted to capture. his store, was a masterIy success and after that he was sue cessful in thirty-fve battles. The second at tempt of the Indians to capture his store was no less disastrous to them than the first and his peculiarity was shown in following up his defense and turning it into an offensive war fare. And so it came to pass that for years he dealt out dry goods and groceries with one hand and fought Indians with the other, and in both success attended him, so that he reaped an ample fortune for those times and wholesome dread of his good fighting arm fell upon the savages. He earned the right by success to remain in the older set dement's of Virginia, where he was specially fitted to shine. But it was his fortune to advance to the outposts of civilization be- yond the Aleghanies, where for forty-iye years he stood like great wall against savage attacks. For twenty-five years he fought the Cherokees, conquerirg not only their wariike instincts, but com manding their highest respect as we'll. His service to the southern colonies in the war of the revolution cannot be overestimated, for while he held the mountain passes not one savage band broke through to annoy and vex the seaboard colonists. In the celebrated attack of the king of the Cherokees upon Sevier at the fort of Wautanga he so skill fully and gallantly defended the 400 women and children in the fort with only 40 men that not one of them received even a scratch, while many of the sayages were picked off by the unerring rifles of that little band led by the first Indian fighter of the day.
 The Chlckamaugas were the last of the Cher okees to be subdued and they were reinforced by the banished Tories who found refuge with them from the anger of the colonists. How Sevier saved his bonnie Kate from inn minent death at the hands of five hundred savages, then wooed and won her. and what wife she was to him was wildly told. When for time it seemed as if hope had fled from all the coast colonists, Sevier held his fort beyond the Alleghanies, and so when the boastful Britons sent message to him to lay down his arms and swear alleg lance to King George, Sevier did not wait to be attacked but reused the whole region and prepared for the battle of Kings mountain which but for the per sonal bravery of the eolonists' leader would have resulted far otherwise than it did. But the victory brought no rest, for when he faced the British in the Carolinas the Indians gathered quickly to recover their former lost ground, and so his worn and tir ed men were turned again to crush the com bined Creeks and Cherokees at Lloyd Creek, which was carried by him against ovewhelm ing odds of fresh savages. And in this, as in all his battles, he defied the Napoleonic maxim that ''God is on the side of the strongest battalions," and more truly exem- pli6ed the latter saying of Fred Douglass that lone with God is majority" Though one of the kindest men at heart that ever lived, he early learned that in that early day in fighting Indians it not safe to spare any red-skinned warrior. When the trans Alleghany colonists tried to set up for them selves the Carolinas refused to allow an inde- pendent State government, and Sevler, the leader in that movement, was outlawed by both North Carolina and the united colonies; the base ingratitude which was shown toward him in ignoring the treaty which he had made and relinquishing all the territory which he had conquered and held alone and giving it to the Creeks and Cherokees, we would fain forget But the increasing vigi- lance and untirihg zeal of Sevier was crown ed with victory and the French broad lands were conceded to be his by right of conquest. The subsequent career of Sevier in civil life no less remarkable than his military life. Fighting with all his might against all that tended to repress the growing attempts of Sevier and his compatriots to found soV- ereign State where they had so long battled with murderous Indians, he carried every point of attack by storm andsthis he did be- cause the hearts of all in that frontier terri tory were long before willing captives to the great heart of love that beat solely for them. This very meagre sketch of one the most in terestng papers of the season it is hoped will only make our readers anxious to read the whole paper when it is published.
 One Hundred and Twenty-Four.
 Professor Colby's natural method German school at the close of the first lesson contains one hundred and twenty-four names of the best citizens of New Haven. If the number increases much more a larger hall will be necessary. This is destined to be the banner CLASS Ol Iuo cOuHtry auu dI Wuo dNall LuSu1- selves of the opportunity will never regret it. Lessons are at 9:30 a. m., 4:30 and 7:30 p. m. each day.
 Detectives at Montreal have arrested Chas. Bueise and Thomas Power, notorious Ameri- can crooks, who have been circulating coun- terfeit bills. The officers think they are on the track of Con Kearns, the leader of the gang, who also directed the operations of the burglars at carnival time
 AdulteratiOn of Food.
 This is age of adulterations and nearly every article of food we use has to some ex- tent been cheapened and the value lessened by the introduction of foreign substances. Even salt has suffered at the hands of the unprincipled money makers, and the salt used upon your table contains chloride of magnesium, clay and other insoluble matter which is entirely injurious to the health. Saltine is pure salt, absolutely free from adulteratiens, and is put up by the Saltine company of New Haven, Conn.,, snd is for sale at all grocers'; price five cents package. Take no other.